Members of the Artemis II crew captured the image during the mission’s record-setting lunar flyby, while US astronaut Bill Anders took the legendary “Earthrise” during the first space mission to carry humans around the Moon in December 1968.
The four astronauts carrying out NASA’s first lunar flyby in more than half-a-century have renewed communications and are on their way home after travelling further from Earth than any human before.
NASA’s mission control in Houston regained contact with the crew after they temporarily lost signal for around 40 minutes, as their spacecraft passed behind Earth’s natural satellite.
“It is so great to hear from Earth again,” said Mission Specialist Christina Koch, as the crew members were once again able to speak with people on Earth.
“We will always choose Earth, we will always choose each other.”
Earlier, the Artemis II team broke the distance record set by the 1970 Apollo 13 mission, surpassing it by 6,600km when they reached the journey’s anticipated furthest distance from Earth – 406,771km.
It was one of the voyage’s most notable achievements yet.
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